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By Michael McDonough

Poetry. RADIOCARTOGRAPHY charts a love affair with a city while mapping an imaginative landscape both densely allusive and as immediate as cracks in the sidewalk."There is a deep, post-ironic sensitivity to McDonough's work that combines skepticism ...

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By Arlene Ang, Valerie Fox, & Jordan Schilling, Eds

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. THE RED ROOM: WRITINGS FROM PRESS 1 features short fiction, poetry and opinion from the first three volumes of Press 1, the magazine of innovative writing. Contributors include Bill Kushner, Jayne Pupek, Maurice...

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By Lydia Cortes

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. WHOSE PLACE is influenced by the language of loss and the loss of language. Some poems are seen through eyes of a little girl, where the differences in the language and culture of her family puertorriquena and that of ...

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By Tom Savage

Poetry. In his tenth book, BRAINLIFTS, longtime New York poet Tom Savage writes and riffs off films, music, dance and art with a sustained aphoristic style, each thought exploding and reverberating in a complex music. Of Tom's work Dean Kostos write...

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By Stephanie Gray

Poetry. LGBT Studies. HEART STONER BINGO explores that nebulous and mysterious ground between pop culture, fact, fiction, and desire. Its prose poems riff and sample like a DJ on the flotsam and jetsam of colloquialisms lifted from the newspaper and...

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By Bill Kushner

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Bill Kushner spins the loose narrative of a lonely ten-year-old Billy whose father is away at war, and who develops a remarkable and touching friendship with his imaginary companion, Abraham Lincoln. This work concludes with th...

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By Valerie Fox

Poetry. "Valerie Fox's idiosyncratic and often hilarious poems, with their playful shifts of syntax and thought, are shadowed over by a mysterious grace.... [Here is] a guide to seeing the world in a new and brilliant way. This is a poetry of multip...